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Record W4410784829 · doi:10.3389/fevo.2025.1604480

WEGAN: a web-based community ecology platform

2025· article· en· W4410784829 on OpenAlexafffund
Gina Sykes, Louisa Normington, Jenna Poelzer, Shiyang Zhao, Dana Allen, Samuel Stuart, Eponine Oler, Komal Jot, Vasuk Gautam, Zhao Xin, Jianguo Xia, Glen C. Jickling, David S. Wishart

Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGeographic Information Systems Studies
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityUniversity of Northern British ColumbiaUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaMultiple Sclerosis International FederationGenome Canada
KeywordsEcologyCommunityWorld Wide WebGeographyEnvironmental resource managementEnvironmental scienceBiologyComputer scienceEcosystem

Abstract

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Community ecology studies how species interact in their ecosystems, influenced by environmental and phenotypic factors. Analyzing these complex interactions requires specialized software or proficiency in statistical programming. While many stand-alone community ecology software tools exist, there is a gap for a free and widely available webserver to support community ecology analysis. To address this shortcoming we have developed WEGAN (Web-based Ecological Group Analysis), an easy-to-use webserver for analyzing and visualizing community ecology data. WEGAN is designed to provide features offered by popular programs such as vegan through a point-and-click web interface. Specifically, WEGAN provides a wide range of community ecology methods to support the analysis and visualization of trends in dispersal, diversity, and taxonomy as well as univariate and multivariate statistics for clustering, classification, correlation, and ordination analysis. WEGAN offers intuitive workflows and generates detailed tables, publication quality figures and a complete (reproducible) R coding history of all inputs, operations and outputs for every user session, together with comprehensive tutorials. WEGAN was developed to help with the teaching and training of community ecology and to encourage wider use of sophisticated community ecology techniques. WEGAN is freely available at https://www.wegan.ca .

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.057
Threshold uncertainty score0.966

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.258
Teacher spread0.247 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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